Call for Abstracts: College of Medicine Annual Celebration of Research

The College of Medicine Annual Celebration of Research is scheduled for April 28- 29, 2009.

A highlight of this event is the presentation of Research Posters by the Faculty.  Traditionally, this has served to showcase the ongoing research in the College of Medicine and foster interaction among faculty, fellows and students. This year, two different themed poster sessions will be held on consecutive days.

In order to provide a more focused opportunity for Clinical faculty participation, a special clinical poster showcase session will be held on Tuesday April 28th, 2009 from 6pm to 8pm in the Cancer Genetics Complex. This session will be limited to 60 posters.

A general research poster session highlighting translational research will be held on Wednesday April 29th from 8am to 4pm, in the ARB Founders Gallery and the HPNP Reception Area.  This session has a capacity of 130 posters.

An online abstract submission process will be used this year. Abstract submissions will be accepted Today, January 5, 2009 through February 5, 2009.  The submission process can be initiated by going to the website http://succeednow.org/SoftwareCOM/ and clicking the create account button to the right. Abstracts will be accepted until February 5th or until we reach our combined capacity of 190 abstracts, WHICHEVER COMES FIRST!!!. You will be notified by email regarding your poster number, date, location and time of your session.

On the submission form, please indicate the category of your poster presentation as: Clinical or Clinical/Quality of Care for the Tuesday session. Poster boards will be available to you by 12pm on Tuesday April 28th. Please remove posters by 8am on April 29th. Clinical and Clinical Quality of care posters will have first priority in the nighttime session on April 28th .  If we have more applications than spaces, those will be part of the day session on April 29th.

For the Wednesday, April 28 th session please indicate if your poster fits a “Clinical”,  “Basic”, "TR/Clinical" or "TR/Basic" category.  Poster boards will be available for this session at 2pm on Tuesday April 28 th . Please have posters up by 8am on Wednesday April 28th and removed by 8am April 29th.

Be prepared to give an informal presentation as attendees cluster around your display from 6pm to 7:30pm for the evening session and from 1:30pm to 2:45pm for the day session.

*For any website related questions, please email tinabrad@ufl.edu

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The College of Medicine Faculty Council was formed for the purpose of promoting the advancement of medicine by elevating and sustaining education; fostering patient care of the highest quality; supporting medical discovery as well as basic science research; promoting mutual fellowship and good feeling among the faculty; providing an effective means of communicating between the faculty and administration of the College of Medicine and Health Science Center; cooperating with the other administrative units within the Health Science Center and University in all matters of mutual interest; making charitable contributions; and by directing the energies of the members in the interest of public health and welfare.

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